Marriage, Class, and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba
Title | Marriage, Class, and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba PDF eBook |
Author | Verena Stolcke |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780472064052 |
A study of marriage patterns in 19th-century Cuba
Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba
Title | Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba PDF eBook |
Author | Verena Martinez-Alier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Cuba |
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Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba
Title | Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba PDF eBook |
Author | Verena Martínez Alier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | |
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Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba
Title | Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba PDF eBook |
Author | Verena Stolcke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Cuba |
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Sexual Borderlands
Title | Sexual Borderlands PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Kennedy |
Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780814209271 |
Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Colonial Cuba
Title | Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Colonial Cuba PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah L. Franklin |
Publisher | University Rochester Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1580464025 |
Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population, the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. Based on a variety of archival and printed primary sources, this book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenth-century Cuban patriarchy rested. This book investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters on motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean's longest lasting slave society. Sarah L. Franklin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama.
Cuba's Racial Crucible
Title | Cuba's Racial Crucible PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Y. Morrison |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2015-05-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253016606 |
This prize-winning study examines the historical interplay of racial identity, nationality, and family formation in Cuba from the 18th century to today. Since the 19th century, there have been two opposing perspectives on Cuban racial identity: one that frames Cubans as white, and one that sees them as racially mixed based on acceptance of African descent. For the past two centuries, these competing views of have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented decisions about choosing partners and family formation. Cuba’s Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations by highlighting the role race has played in reproductive practices and genealogical memories associated with family formation. Karen Y. Morrison reads archival, oral-history, and literary sources to demonstrate the ideological centrality and inseparability of "race," "nation," and "family," in definitions of Cuban identity. Morrison also analyzes the conditions that supported the social advance and decline of notions of white racial superiority, nationalist projections of racial hybridity, and pride in African descent. Winner, NECLAS Marissa Navarro Best Book Prize